[CMake] parallel builds (ctest_build() ) for dashboards ?

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Nov 30 15:52:05 EST 2009


David Cole wrote:
> In the script, prior to the ctest_build call, do:
> set(CTEST_BUILD_FLAGS -j4)
> 
> (only works with make that supports -j, obviously...)
> 
We often do this in our scripts:

set(CTEST_BUILD_COMMAND "make -j4 -i")
MAKECOMMAND:STRING=/usr/bin/make -i -j4

I don't think we will add the make tool smarts into ctest_build to 
handle this as it depends on which make you are actually using.

-Bill


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